[4eyes] Houdini talk, 2 PM Thursday, Elings 2003

[Theodore Kim]

CORRECTION: The talk is tomorrow, FRIDAY, not Thursday. Thanks to
those who pointed this out.

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Theodore Kim <kim at mat.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Greeting everybody,
>
> I have invited Jeff Lait, the senior mathematician at Side Effects
> Software, to give an informal talk on using Houdini in research in
> Elings 2003 at 2 PM tomorrow (Thursday).
>
> For those not familiar with Houdini, it is a competitive product to
> Maya, and has (in my opinion) superior simulation tools, including a
> fluid simulator, rigid body solver, cloth solver, and destructible
> physics solver. We're already using their fluid simulator in our most
> current research. Their renderer, Manta, won a Scitech Oscar last
> year.
>
> This won't be a sales pitch -- all the features of Houdini are
> available in its free version, including geometry and simulation data
> import/export, and their software development kit, HDK. The only
> drawback is that the renders are watermarked.
>
> If you have any questions, please let me know.
>
> Hope to see you there!
> Ted